Chilling: Obama Issues Thinly Veiled Call for More Social Media Censorship

It’s been a big week for Barack Obama, and the former president has been singing some showstoppers during his return to the spotlight.

On Tuesday, Obama traveled back to the White House for the first time in years to buttress Obamacare. Then, on Thursday, the former president appeared at an event hosted by The Atlantic magazine and the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. It was a lower-profile gig, but what he said there was more infuriating — and more dangerous — than anything he uttered at the White House.

During his Wednesday evening speech, the former president said there was “a demand for crazy on the internet” that it was up to Silicon Valley and federal regulators to quash.

(This isn’t the first time that Democrats have called for censorship in the online town square — and they’ve been upping the pressure of late now that the unpredictable Elon Musk has taken a nearly 10 percent share in Twitter to become the company’s largest shareholder as well as a member of its board. Here at The Western Journal, we’ve been documenting for years now why the problem isn’t the lack of censorship on social media — but rather the onerous yoke of the censorship that already exists. We’re going to keep documenting it, too — and you can help us by subscribing.)

“I do think that there is a demand for crazy on the internet that we have to grapple with,” Obama said when asked about how social media should deal with so-called misinformation and disinformation on the internet.

“Obama pointed to examples of how misinformation has plagued the U.S., with some still falsely believing that President Biden did not win the 2020 election,” The Hill reported. – READ MORE